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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed legislation that would rename a stretch of highway for former President Donald Trump.
The Republican governor signed an omnibus bridge and highway naming bill Friday, which renamed a 20-mile stretch of road, spanning from Boise City, Oklahoma, to the state's border with Texas, as the President Donald J. Trump Highway.
The bill initially hit a roadblock when Democratic legislators pointed out that state law requires, in most cases, a person to be dead for at least three years before a road or bridge can be named in their honor, according to the Oklahoman. Republicans repealed the three-year waiting period, allowing the highway to be named after Trump. The lawmakers who supported the bill plan to pay for the new signage that will be posted along the highway themselves.
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Conservative lawmakers made a similar attempt to name a highway after Trump in 2019, but the plan stalled over concerns about naming a highway after a president that was still in office.
Oklahoma isn't alone in renaming infrastructure for the 45th president. Republicans in the Ohio House introduced legislation in April to rename Mosquito Lake State Park to Donald J. Trump State Park.
The New York State Legislature, however, is taking a different path. Democrats have launched an effort to strip Donald J. Trump State Park of its name. The park was donated to the state of New York in 2006 after plans for a golf course on the site were abandoned.
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"Our parklands should be reflective of New Yorkers that we can be proud of, New Yorkers that have expressed our values,” Assemblywoman Nily Rozic, a Democratic sponsor of the bill, of the plan. “There are a lot of other New Yorkers who are worthy of the honor of having a park named after themselves.”
